scholarly journals What does frustration, serendipity and uncertainties of global media and communication means? Some versions from Latvia and Estonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Deniss Hanovs ◽  
Anda Rozukalne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Chemical Formula ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Short Novel ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Low Wages ◽  
Entertainment Culture

In a short novel by contemporary Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin “White square” (2018), the moderator of the show with the same title gets killed during the show in which four guests express their visions of present society. Everyone can follow the killing on-line, having voted shortly before for the most entertaining guest. After having received an injection of a new chemical formula which is supposed to entertain the audience, the four participants get wild and destroy the whole show enjoyed by the audience. A new moderator is being engaged to let the show go on... This rather gothic plot shows another part of the reality – the memories of the director of the show about someone, a person unknown to the reader, who has been killed to start the bloody entertainment. The ring, made of the skin of this unknown person gets lost and lands in a realm beyond the on-line entertainment culture: poor workers, their uneducated wives and alcoholics, who still inhabit the off-line everyday life of low wages, heavy physical jobs and simple joys ignored by blood thirsty audience, voting and selling advertisement time for higher prices. Both groups, digital media users and poor underpaid blue collars are in contemporary Europe and the USA targets for populist messages in media.

Digital tax: an instructive foreign experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-87
Author(s):  
K.S. Teteryatnikov ◽  
S.G. Каmolov ◽  
D.A. Blashkina
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Digital Products ◽  
Tax Reforms ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article is meant to analyze current problems and prospects for the development of effective tax policy as part of digital transformation of Russian economy. Introduction of a digital tax and the consequences of the digital tax reforms in the EU, the USA and OECD countries are highlighted. The necessity of qualitative transformation of the tax system of the Russian Federation in response to modern challenges is substantiated, taking into account the changes of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation adopted at the end of July 2020. The authors suggested their own concept of a digital tax and the prospects for its adoption in Russia, and consider it inappropriate to impose taxes on Internet users who do not use the Internet for business. Today, the main focus should be made on creating and testing effective technologies that allow on-line monitoring the tax basis of digital economy entities, taking into account the cross-border movement or use of digital products (goods and services). In addition, it would be extremely important to provide for a potential tax exemption for part of the profits of international ICT companies that are received on the territory of the Russian Federation and reinvested in joint with Russian companies projects in the high-tech for civil purposes area.

scholarly journals Mobile bystanders and rubbernecks, disaster tourists, and helpers. Towards a theoretical framework for critically studying action possibilities at accident sites

2021 ◽  
pp. 205015792098482
Author(s):  
Linus Andersson ◽  
Ebba Sundin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices

This article addresses the phenomenon of mobile bystanders who use their smartphones to film or take photographs at accident scenes, instead of offering their help to people in need or to assist medical units. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in Swedish news media in recent years since it has been described as a growing problem for first responders, such as paramedics, police, and firefighters. This article aims to identify theoretical perspectives that are relevant for analyzing mobile media practices and discuss the ethical implications of these perspectives. Our purpose is twofold: we want to develop a theoretical framework for critically approaching mobile media practices, and we want to contribute to discussions concerning well-being in a time marked by mediatization and digitalization. In this pursuit, we combine theory from social psychology about how people behave at traumatic scenes with discussions about witnessing in and through media, as developed in media and communication studies. Both perspectives offer various implications for normative inquiry, and in our discussion, we argue that mobile bystanders must be considered simultaneously as transgressors of social norms and as emphatic witnesses behaving in accordance with the digital media age. The article ends with a discussion regarding the implications for further research.

Impact of fibromyalgia on everyday life: a study of women in the USA and Sweden

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Henriksson ◽  
Carol Burckhardt
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Usa

scholarly journals The Need Recognition in Marketing of the Tailor-Made Furniture and Personalization Process of the Product through Design Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-49
Author(s):  
Jordan Berginc
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Design Management ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
The Core ◽  
On Line ◽  
Strong Competition

Small business furniture manufacturers in the age of digital media are changing the concepts of marketing and sales based on the strategy they recognize the user experiences. This creates a difference between industrial furniture manufacturers and traditional carpentry companies that produce tailor-made furniture. For our research, we examine the core question: “How successfully do small kitchen furniture manufacturers face strong competition in the market through a product personalization approach, considering user experiences and by practicing design management strategy?” With the support of the on-line marketing research, we will research 120 experienced customers, study their marketing need and user experiences of kitchen furniture in the concept of design management strategy.

scholarly journals MIGRACIÓN Y CAMBIO SOCIOCULTURAL EN DOS COMUNIDADES RURALES DEL DEPARTAMENTO DE CHALATENANGO, EL SALVADOR

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Patricia Castro Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Sociocultural Change ◽  
Cultural Hybridization ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Migration

Este artículo presenta resultados de la investigación «Género y migración: Recomposición Familiar», que fue llevada a cabo en los municipios de Comalapa y Concepción Quezaltepeque del Departamento de Chalatenango, en El Salvador; cuyo trabajo de campo se realizó entre 2009 y 2010. De esa investigación se ha retomado el análisis del fenómeno migratorio que experimenta El Salvador desde la perspectiva de la hibridación cultural, y se centra en la vida cotidiana de los municipios antes mencionados con la intención de comparar las dinámicas culturales que se establecen en ambos, tomando en cuenta que en el primero las personas migran hacia EUA y en el segundo mayoritariamente a Italia.   MIGRATION AND SOCIOCULTURAL CHANGE IN TWO RURAL COMMUNITIES FROM CHALATENANGO, EL SALVADORABSTRACTThis article presents results from the piece of research titled «Gender and Migration: Family Recomposition.» This study was conducted in the municipalities of Comalapa and Concepción Quezaltepeque in Chalatenango, El Salvador. Fieldwork was carried out between 2009 and 2010. The analysis of the migration phenomenon experienced in El Salvador has been taken from this piece of research. This analysis was made from a cultural hybridization perspective and focuses on the everyday life in the aforementioned municipalities. The intention is to compare the cultural dynamics established between the two, taking into consideration that in the former, people migrate to the USA, whereas in the latter they mostly migrate to Italy.

scholarly journals Surveillance Aesthetics in Latin America: Work in progress

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda Bruno ◽  
Paola Barreto ◽  
Milena Szafir
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Surveillance Culture ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

This on line curatorship presents a selection of 11 works by Latin American artists who incorporate in their creations technologies traditionally linked to surveillance and control processes. By Surveillance Aesthetics we understand a compound of artistic practices, which include the appropriation of dispositifs such as closed circuit video, webcams, satellite images, algorithms and computer vision among others, placing them within new visibility, attention and experience regimes. The term referred to in the title of this exhibition is intended more as a vector of research rather than the determination of a field, as pointed by Arlindo Machado under the term “surveillance culture”. (Machado 1991) In this sense, a Latin America Surveillance Aesthetics exhibition is a way to propose, starting from the works presented here, a myriad of questions. How and to what extent do the destinies of surveillance devices reverberate or are subverted by market, security and media logics in our societies? If, in Europe and in the USA, surveillance is a subject related to the war against terror and border control, what can be said about Latin America? What forces and conflicts are involved? How have artistic practices been creating and acting in relation to these forces and conflicts? Successful panoramas of so called Surveillance Art already take place in Europe and North America for at least three decades, the exhibition “Surveillance”, at the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions being one of the first initiatives in this domain. In Latin America however, art produced in the context of surveillance devices and processes is still seen as an isolated event. Our intention is to assemble a selection of works indicating the existence of a wider base of production, which cannot be considered eventual.The online exhibition can be accessed here.http://www.pec.ufrj.br/surveillanceaestheticslatina/

scholarly journals The Speech Act of Complimenting as Part of the Ukrainian, Russian and English-Speaking Communities: Ukraine and the USA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anzhelika Solodka ◽  
Luis Perea
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Appearance ◽  
The Usa ◽  
On Line ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Language Context

Compliments as speech acts have the reflection and expression of cultural values. Many of the values reflected through compliments are personal appearance, new acquisitions, possessions, talents and skills. It is especially important in linguistic interaction between people. This research aims to analyze the speech acts of complimenting in Ukrainian and American cultures in order to use them for teaching pragmatics second language (L2) students. Defining the ways of complimenting in Ukrainian, Russian and American English help to avoid misunderstandings and pragmatic failures. This study uses a method of ethnomethodology. Speach acts are studied in their natural contexts. To carry out this research native speakers of English in the United States and native speakers of Russian and Ukrainian from all over Ukraine were interviewed on-line. The analysis was made on the data that included: 445 Russian, 231 Ukrainian and 245 English compliments. Results of this study show how native speakers tend to compliment people: syntactical structure of expressions, cultural lexicon, attributes praised and language context. It has implications for teaching English to Ukrainians and for teaching Russian and Ukrainian to speakers of English. Knowing how to use speech acts allows the speaker to have pragmatic competence. Upon completion of the data analysis on the current study, further information on deeper analysis in terms of semantics and metaphorical language can be provided.

scholarly journals Scientific and practical journal "Radiation Diagnostics, Radiation Therapy" as the basis for professional interaction: 2010-2020

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Iryna Dykan
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Free Access ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Moment

The journal "Radiation Diagnostics, Radiation Therapy" was founded in 2010. The founder and publisher of the journal is the SI "Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine". The purposes and objectives of the journal: informing national and foreign readers about new experimental and clinical researches in the field of radiation diagnostics, radiation therapy and surgery; providing a platform for scientific discussions and reaching consensus on controversial and actual aspects of radiation diagnostics and radiation therapy of diseases in adults and children; promoting the expansion of cooperation between domestic and foreign specialists in the field of radiation diagnostics, radiation therapy and surgery for the formation of modern effective practice. In 2019, the journal was re-registered as "Radiation Diagnostics, Radiation Therapy" (RDRT). All scientific articles are peer-reviewed. Since 2019, all scientific articles published in the journal have been assigned the DOI index as one of an essential accessory for integration into the scientific space of our planet. As of December 2020, a total of 36 RDRT issues have been published. For 10 years, a total of 373 publications, within 23 headings, from 70 institutions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Germany, and the USA, have been printed on its pages. All high-tech technologies of radiation diagnostics and radiation therapy to one degree or another are reflected in the published articles. It is planned to master live publication – posting on the Internet in the free access of scientific work, which is periodically brought up to date by its author. The advantages of such a publication: comfortable perception by the reader (in the text, all inaccuracies and errors noticed from the moment of the first publication of the work on-line are carefully corrected, and also changes in this branch of science are constantly monitored); comfort for the author (mistakes and misprints are now not fatal, and do not haunt the author for the rest of his life); interest in the periodically updated publication even intensifies over time, many readers return to the actual text not only to refresh the most significant points in their memory, but also to find out how the author's views are being transformed and what’s new appeared in a particular area. Key words: science, scientific journal, scientific article, scientific communication, scientometrics, scientific ecosystem.

scholarly journals ‘FITNA’ IN EVERYDAY LIFE: Phenomena of the Digital Behavior of Indonesian Muslim Society on Dajjal Hadith

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
D.I Ansusa Putra
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Demand Pattern ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Phenomena ◽  
The Many

<p><em>Dajjal appearance discussion in the last decade has been the trending among Muslim. There are massive search for religious doctrines text on Dajjal in digital media. This is oriented towards certain views about the world, social and cultural conditions, political project, political subjectivity, attitudes, and practice or competence. The behavior affects social-political life through the contextualization of hadith about Dajjal. This study aims to obtain a complete picture of digital media behavior in understanding religious doctrines related to  Fitna of Dajjal among Muslims. This article combines Muslim theory of Cosmopolitanism Khairuddin Aljunied and living hadith approach, supported by data from google trend search throughout 2019. The results showed that there were four digital behaviors of Indonesian Muslim related to Dajjal hadith, first, searching instantaneously; second, reviewing from internet; third, joining the contextualisation discussion; and fourth, liking the personalization and illustration. The most frequently sought topic is about the prayer to be protected from Fitna of Dajjal. In addition, the study also tried to prove that this digital behavior is formed massively because of supply and demand pattern. It means that there are groups producing Dajjal hadith in public sphere regularly since they are supported by the many interests of consumers.</em></p>

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